Sir, Have we become so divorced from the natural environment that many people, including politicians, don’t see the need to make preserving it a priority (“Green issues polarise public, though many don’t care at all”, news, Jul 1)? You report that the public places the issue behind the economy, health and immigration, and that one interviewee said: “Neither of the two main parties are taking it seriously.” Most politicians continue to advocate economic growth as the answer to all our problems, without considering how long this is possible in a finite world where countries are competing for limited resources. More than 50 years ago, a landmark study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that there were limits to growth. There still are.
